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Advani admits he sabotaged Agra summit
NEW DELHI, March 17: Indian opposition leader Lal Kishan Advani has claimed that inviting President Pervez Musharraf to Agra in July 2001 was his idea, but he also admitted in comments...
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Four Nato troops killed in Afghan violence
KANDAHAR, March 17: Four Nato soldiers were killed in new attacks in Afghanistan, including a Taliban suicide bomb on Monday that also took the lives of three Afghan civilians, security forces said....
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Indian state faces famine after plague of rats
SATEEK (India), March 17: About a million people in India’s northeastern state of Mizoram are facing famine after a plague of rats ate the region’s entire paddy crop, officials and aid agencies said on Monday....
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Iraq invasion was ‘successful endeavour’: Cheney
BAGHDAD, March 17: US Vice-President Dick Cheney on Monday declared the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq a “successful endeavour” during a visit to Baghdad, on the same day a woman suicide bomber killed 40 people....
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Olmert vows to continue settlements
JERUSALEM, March 17: Israel will continue to build its settlements in annexed east Jerusalem, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday, amid international concern the action could hamper revived peace talks....
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Serbs resist Nato bid to retake UN court: over 130 hurt
MITROVICA (Kosovo), March 17: Serbs fired guns and threw grenades at UN police and NATO troops in Kosovo on Monday in the worst violence since Albanian leaders declared Kosovo’s independence from Serbia a month ago....
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Make bread not war, Mubarak tells army
CAIRO, March 17: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has mobilised the army’s ovens to deal with the country’s massive bread shortages amid rising social unrest, official media reported on Monday....
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‘Old media’ winning new audience
WASHINGTON, March 17: Newspapers gained readers last year, confounding analysts who have predicted they would continue to lose ground as more people switch to the Internet to get their news, a report issued on Monday said....
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Gates urges Russia to ‘give ground’: Missile defence
MOSCOW, March 17: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Monday held sensitive talks on missile defence with President Vladimir Putin and president-elect Dmitry Medvedev....
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France pays tribute to WWI veteran
PARIS, March 17: President Nicolas Sarkozy led a national ceremony in Paris on Monday in honour of the last French veteran of World War I, Lazare Ponticelli, who died last week at 110....
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Taslima to leave India
NEW DELHI, March 17: Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen said on Monday she was leaving India because of deteriorating health after being forced to live in a secret hideaway without any visitors for nearly four months....
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Model prisoner disappears on pope visit
ROME, March 17: An Italian convict allowed to attend a papal audience because he was considered a “model prisoner” took advantage of the kindness of his captors to disappear last week....
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Baghdad’s Romeo, Juliet find love in Iraq war
PENSACOLA (Florida): It was certainly not a match made in heaven at first. He was an American soldier newly arrived in Baghdad at the start of the US-led invasion....
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Bombers seek recognition, fulfilment: Study’s findings
BAGHDAD: Young, lonely and struggling to make a mark. The US military on Sunday presented a profile of foreign fighters, who are blamed for about 90 per cent of the suicide bombings that have claimed thousands of lives in Iraq....
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Iran vote a mixed blessing for Ahmadinejad
TEHRAN: Iran’s newly-elected parliament is packed with conservatives, but hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not assured of an easy ride in the run-up to next year’s presidential race....
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Most countries fail to meet sanitation goals
OSLO: “The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers,” French 19th century author Victor Hugo wrote in Les Miserables. “The sewer is the conscience of the city ......
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Turkey’s stability, reforms at risk
ANKARA: Turkey faces a lengthy period of political uncertainty that could undermine its economy and European Union entry bid after prosecutors launched a case to shut down the ruling AK Party for alleged Islamist activities....
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